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Words and Meters: Neural Evidence for a Connection Between Individual Differences in Statistical Learning and Rhythmic Ability in Infancy. [PDF]
Dev SciABSTRACT Music and language are both hierarchically structured: syllables combine into words, and meters are groupings of musical beats. Statistical learning (SL) supports speech segmentation through computation of transitional probabilities between syllables, and individual differences in SL ability were found predictive of further language ...
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Weight sensitivity and prominence in Laurentian French
Glossa, 2022 Main prominence is conventionally described as being assigned to the final syllable of phrases in French, but previous quantitative and qualitative work has shown that this is not always the case.
Heather Goad, Jeffrey Lamontagne
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Phonological complexity, segment rate and speech tempo perception [PDF]
, 2017 Studies of speech tempo commonly use syllable or segment rate as a proxy measure for perceived tempo. In languages whose phonologies allow substantial syllable complexity these measures can produce figures on quite different scales; however, little is ...
Plug, L, Smith, R
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Syllable "Sonority" Hierarchy and Pulaar Stress: A Metrical Approach
Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1995 "Syllable weight is usually viewed as a binary opposition…' (Hayes 1989) . That is, syllable weight distinctions are claimed to be at most binary: heavy vs light; bimoraic vs monomoraic.
Niang, Mamadou
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On formal universals in phonology [PDF]
, 2009 Understanding the universal aspects of human language structure requires comparison at multiple levels of analysis. While Evans & Levinson (E&L) focus mostly on substantive variation in language, equally revealing insights can come from studying formal ...
Nevins, A
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Information theoretic syllable structure and its relation to the c-center effect [PDF]
, 2013 Established phonological theories postulate uniform syllable constituent structures. From a traditional hierarchical point of view, syllables are right branching implying a close connection between the nucleus and the coda.
Reichel, Uwe D.
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Acoustics of stress and weight in Central Alaskan Yup’ik
Laboratory Phonology, 2023 In Central Alaskan Yup’ik, syllables with long vowels are always stressed, light syllables alternate stress, but only certain closed syllables are stressed.
Anja Arnhold, McKinley Alden
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Against Old English ‘short’ diphthongs
Crossroads, 2017 Since the earliest grammars, Old English has been analysed as having a length contrast in diphthongs, containing both regular, bimoraic ones, side by side with cross-linguistically unique monomoraic ones.
Helena Sobol
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Phonetic effects of onset complexity on the English syllable
Laboratory Phonology, 2020 Although onsets do not arbitrate stress placement in English categorically, results from Kelly (2004) and Ryan (2014) suggest that English stress assignment is nevertheless sensitive to onset complexity.
Anna Mai
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Acoustic Correlations of Speech Rhythms in Persian Based on Variability of Between-speakers Characteristics [PDF]
نشریه پژوهشهای زبانشناسی, 2020 The durational variability of phonetic intervals is considered as one of the properties of speech rhythm. These intervals include segmental, vowel, consonantal, vocalic, intervocalic, voiced, unvoiced, syllable, and syllable peak intervals.
Nafiseh Taghva +2 more
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